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Stuck on Chapter 4

Hello,

I'm stuck on Chapter 4 at the part where you try to get the bird. I've already previously spoken to the Captain about the White Dragon, and the Sailor about getting him his bird. I've won the game, and know that I have to exchange the screwdriver (aka "magic wand") for the bird. However, every time I try to hand it over, and they talk about the exchange, April states that "she hasn't decided yet." No amount of me waiting, or running around, or talking to everyone all over again has changed this.

Well it doesn't really give me an option to decide. I've tried doing anything possible to "Crow" when he's in the cage in order to make it seem like I select him, but I dunno. Maybe this is a glitch of some sort? I've looked around and it doesn't seem like anyone else has had this problem ...

I have the two CD / DVD version, I think. The one with both The Longest Journey and Dreamfall in the package. I dunno, I went back to one of my earlier saves in Chapter Three, and played from there ... and still the same result. She keeps saying "I haven't decided yet." I'm wondering if it's because I spoke to the Captain and the Old Sailor about the bird and everything earlier in the game during one of the other visits to Arcadia ... not sure why that would prevent me from being able to get the Bird now.

Well, yeah, that's the weird thing. Everything I've read indicates you get the option to choose, but when I select the screwdriver to give to the man, he asks "Have I decided" and she automatically says something about still thinking about it. Looking at the bird doesn't work, and there's no option for me to select anything. It just ends the conversation and keeps doing the same thing every time I try to give him the screwdriver. I'm rather perplexed.

Hmm, strange. The last thing I can think of is that I write down what I did to get the bird; if you did the same, it has to be some kind of unknown.

Select the coins, "put" them on the cups, and wait until the cups are moved around. Choose your screwdriver and search for the cup which moves (it was the one in the middle in my case, don't know whether it has been randomized). Then the "man" talks to you about "how can you have won blabla"), and you'll get a calculator. Then you should give him the scewdriver, and then select "the talking bird".

Yeah, I've done all that multiple times. April just keeps on saying "I haven't decided" when he asks what exotic prize she wants, and there's no way for me to select something. It's getting to be pretty frustrating because clearly I can't move on with the game until I get the bird ... but it's almost as if there's NO way for me to get the bird.

You could try to install some patches from the website, or - if nothing else helps - you could load a savegame from this site (or from someone else, who has got a savegame which is closer to your current location), and load chapter 5.